I Asked AI Chatbots to Help Me Shop. They All Failed
Clarity of sourcing is going to be increasingly important in the future, as will creating real consequences for AI being wrong or being used to mislead consumers. The consequences for...
A more effective way to train machines for uncertain, real-world situations
Someone learning to play tennis might hire a teacher to help them learn faster. Because this teacher is (hopefully) a great tennis player, there are times when trying to exactly...
New tool helps people choose the right method for evaluating AI models
When machine-learning models are deployed in real-world situations, perhaps to flag potential disease in X-rays for a radiologist to review, human users need to know when to trust the model’s...
Mark Zuckerberg marks Memorial Day with Murph Challenge
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg marked Memorial Day by doing “the Murph Challenge” — a grueling workout that included 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats, and a mile-long run,...
AI experts warn of ‘risk of extinction’ similar to nuclear weapons
A group of top artificial intelligence experts and executives warned the technology poses a “risk of extinction” in an alarming joint statement released Tuesday. OpenAI boss Sam Altman, whose firm...
Elon Musk kicks off China visit, Tesla expansion in focus
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday kicked off a high-stakes visit to China with a meeting with the country’s foreign minister in Beijing, marking his return to the electric carmaker’s largest production hub after...
For Some Autistic People, ChatGPT Is a Lifeline
The chatbot’s flexibility also comes with some unaddressed problems. It can produce biased, unpredictable, and often fabricated answers, and is built in part on personal information scraped without permission, raising privacy concerns....
Nvidia hits $1T in market value on booming ChatGPT, AI demand
Nvidia on Tuesday became the first chipmaker to join the trillion-dollar club, as the company bets on a surge in demand for its AI chips that power chatbot sensation ChatGPT and...
Runaway AI Is an Extinction Risk, Experts Warn
Leading figures in the development of artificial intelligence systems, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, have signed a statement warning that the technology they are...
